Louis Vuitton’s Italian sneakers would be the very height of luxury. Its own Venice workshop claims to embody “ancestral savoir-faire” in a area “revered for its nice shoe craftsmanship”.It is an image burnished by one of their biggest advertising budgets in the world. The Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH) luxury group spent $4.4bn (#3.45bn) last year on marketing its portfolio of top labels, which vary from Moet & Chandon champagne to Givenchy, TAG Heuer and Louis Vuitton shoes, adorned with all the LV emblem that’s a global badge of wealth.This is, nonetheless, far from the full picture. Many of the boots and shoes it sells for between #500 and #1,800 a pair and stamped as “made in Italy” are mostly made in Transylvania, a region better known for vampires than any tradition of luxury craftsmanship.Louis Vuitton stages gaudy cruise series in Western mountains.The factories are a well-kept secret, their identity closely guarded. The management says it has taken pains to ensure they don’t turn up at a Google search. On the exterior there is no mention of the brand — just a shadow of the Louis Vuitton checkerboard print, painted in grey on the factory walls. The name on the gate is Somarest, a little-known LVMH subsidiary.A French TV documentary group has been turned back in these gates in 2014. Anonymous employees said whole shoes were made in Romania prior to being shipped to Italy, in which the soles were inserted.
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